On Sunday 16 February 2003 12:08 pm, Eric House wrote: > > I don''t have this experience myself, but you can check drops and > > errors with "ip -s link" > > The problem continues, but it's only with certain websites. > Unfortunately, Yahoo and Epicurious are among them and absolutely > essential to the lives of some in our household. > > 'ip -s link' shows absolutely no problems. According to it, hundreds > of megabytes worth of packets have moved over ppp0 without a single > error or drop. I assume the router's interfering with something else > that certain websites require to perform at their best. And I have no > idea what to look for.
Hey! Yahoo and an increasing number of other sites are using a fsck'ed form of load-balancing that depends on your machine (firewall anyway) answering tons of requests from placed DNS servers around the world. The LEAF variants don't readily conform to making all these replies, so there are issues with this type of load-balancing working if the webpage does NOT specify a default or fall-back procedure does not work as expected. If this is your problem, you should see a ton of DNS requests in your logs denied at the firewall OR a ton of connect connections via DNS ports on the firewall (that sometimes chokes out a connection). In any case, this behaviour is non-rfc compliant and not readily fixable until it can be changed to behave in a rfc-compliant way. I can say that it may or may not work depending on the particular code of the html page that is processed. If you can link a 'failed page', I can tell you whether or not this is the problem. -- ~Lynn Avants Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall developer http://leaf.sourceforge.net ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
